Verdi: Giovanna d'Arco

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[Domingo] sounds entirely at home in his new vocal category; his voice now fibrous in quality, he is also engaged dramatically...Netrebko's soprano has expanded to embrace the stirring warrior-maiden... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Jun 2014
Catalogue No: 4792712
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

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2nd June 2014
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Verdi: Giovanna d'Arco

Work length1:48:27

$41.80

$57.00

Francesco Meli (tenor), Plácido Domingo (baritone), Anna Netrebko (soprano), Roberto Tagliavini (bass), Johannes Dunz (tenor)
Philharmonia Chor Wien, Munich Radio Orchestra
Paolo Carignani
Recorded: 2013-08-06
Recording Venue: Felsenreitschule, Salzburg

Sinfonia

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"Qual v'ha speme?"

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"Il Re! Nel suo bel volto"

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"Sotto una quercia parvemi"

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"V'ha dunque un loco simile"

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"Pondo è letal, martiro"

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"Gelo, terrore m'invade!"

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"Oh, ben s'addice questo torbido cielo"

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"Sempre all'alba ed alla sera"

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"Paventi, Carlo, tu forse?"

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"Tu sei bella"

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"Pronta sono!...Son guerriera"

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"Ai lari!..Alla patria!"

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"Questa rea che vi percuote"

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"Franco son io, ma in core"

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"So che per via di triboli"

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"Qui! Qui...dove più s'apre libero il cielo"

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"O fatidica foresta"

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"Ho risolto - E in tal momenti"

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"T'arretri e palpiti!"

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"Taci!...Le vie traboccano"

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"Vieni al tempio"

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"Dal cielo a noi chi viene"

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"Ecco il luogo"

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"...Speme al vecchio era una figlia"

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"Te, Dio, Iodiam"

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"Compiuto è il rito!...Non fuggir, donzella!"

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"No! forme d'angelo...L'amaro calice sommessa io bevo"

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"Ti discolpa!...Imbianca e tace!"

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"I Franci!...Oh qual mi scuote rumor di guerra?"

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"A lui pensa!...Amai, ma un solo istante"

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"Tu che all'eletto Sàulo"

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"Or dal padre benedetta"

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"Ecco! Ella vola - Presa è la rocca"

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"Di novel prodigio il ciel ne arrise"

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"Quale più fido amico"

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"Un suon funereo"

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"Che mai fu? ...S'apre il cielo"

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Recording of the Week, Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco with Anna Netrebko and Plácido Domingo

2nd June 2014

Katherine reviews a new recording of Verdi’s Giovanna d'Arco from last year’s Salzberg Festival, with Anna Netrebko and Plácido Domingo.

A dream team: Anna Netrebko, Plácido Domingo and Giuseppe Verdi! Giovanna d'Arco was recorded live during the critically acclaimed performances of 2013 Salzburg Festival.

Full of melodies, passion and pathos, Giovanna d’Arco, Verdi’s take on the Joan of Arc story and its legendary heroine, is regarded as one of the great composer’s early masterpieces. The first complete audio opera recording of Domingo as a baritone and the first complete recording of this significant Verdi work in Deutsche Grammophon’s history.

Anna Netrebko is a phenomenon: quite simply, the undisputed superstar – “la prima donna assoluta" (New York Post) – of opera today. The “Verdi” album announced Netrebko’s long-awaited move into the dramatic repertoire of Italian grand opera. With this Giovanna d'Arco recording she plunges completely into this deep, rich world.

Domingo is a marvel – “The King of Opera” (Die Presse). Widely hailed as the greatest Verdi tenor of his day, even as a baritone, with his distinctive “bronze” vocal timbre, musical intelligence and sense of poetry, he remains one of our most compelling Verdi interpreters.

Young Italian tenor Francesco Meli is one of the rising stars of bel canto. Renowned Verdi and bel canto maestro Paolo Carignani coaxes idiomatic style and flair from the Salzburg forces.

Reviews

September 2014

[Domingo] sounds entirely at home in his new vocal category; his voice now fibrous in quality, he is also engaged dramatically...Netrebko's soprano has expanded to embrace the stirring warrior-maiden possibilities of the title-role...Meli's healthy and characteristically Italianate tenor creates a credibly wark but volatile Carlo...Carignani paces the score skilfully.

September 2014

Netrebko's upper range delivers operatic thrills (particularly once she's warmed up), though her more dramatically vivid treatment of Joan's more introspective moments make you eager for her to explore better-known Verdi.

December 2014

[Netrebko] In her entrance recitative and aria, her assertive manner, rich middle range and tonal amplitude immediately validate her as a warrior maiden and as an authentic Verdi soprano.

James Levine's classic recording with Caballé, Domingo & Milnes (1972) still takes some beating for Verdi's fanciful treatment of the 'Maid of Orleans', but I did warm to last year's maverick newcomer - Anna Netrebko offers more thrills than spills in the title-role and Francesco Meli sings with full-throated ardour as Carlo VII, whilst Giacomo is to my mind Placido Domingo's most successful baritone role to date.

2nd June 2014

Netrebko is on fire (no pun intended) as Giovanna, singing with her customary passion but also with more technical security in the role’s many florid passages and exposed top notes than she’s brought to other Verdi projects...Domingo is absolutely riveting as her father, a role which to my ear suits him far better than some of his other excursions into baritone territory.

4th September 2014

[Netrebko] will be the deal breaker. This greatly talented but infuriatingly erratic Russian soprano runs true to form, being blowsily approximate and all over the place in the early scenes...before striking form in the second act, where she produces passages both thrilling and beautiful, graced by floated pianissimos to rival Caballé’s and underpinned by a wholehearted exuberance.

Verdi: Giovanna d'Arco

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